Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (TGIF)

Sax solo part 2!

AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!  I swear this should be a Ke$ha song.

"There's a stranger in my bed
There's a pounding in my head
Glitter all over the room
Pink flamingos in the pool
I smell like a minibar
DJ's passed out in the yard
Barbie's on the barbeque
Is this a hickie or a bruise"

Thanks Katy, I appreciate the song about you waking up with anonymous people in your bed.  I also wonder why glitter has suddenly become a part of so many songs.  Debauchery and drunkenness in song form, lovely.  This song is the aural form of televisions portrayal of teenagers and folks in their 20's as constant drunks whose every weekend is fodder for Texts From Last Night.


"Pictures of last night
Ended up online
I'm screwed
Oh well
It's a blacked out blur
But I'm pretty sure it ruled"

The only thing about the evening you remember are the embarrassing pictures that are on  the internet, and you just shrug it off and say your night ruled?  Do we really need this short sighted crap pushed in a song?  There are companies who monitor people on social media networks and present these findings like a background check for potential employers.  These nights that ruled, these nights you cannot remember can haunt you for the rest of your life.

"Last Friday night
Yeah we danced on table tops
And we took too many shots
Think we kissed but I forgot
Last Friday night
Yeah we maxed our credit cards
Then got kicked out of the bar
So we hit the boulevard
Last Friday night
We went streaking in the park
Skinny dipping in the dark
Then had a menage a trois
Last Friday night
Yeah I think we broke the law
Always say we're gonna stop
But this Friday night
Do it all again
This Friday night
Do it all again"

Take a moment and read all that.  I'm sure many people go through a phase where they take too many shots and dance on tables, but then they grow up.  Perry doesn't want to grow up, she insists that Friday night's activities will be repeated.

Also, streaking and skinny dipping are dumb activities, but not really all that harmful (aside from the potential of being picked up by the police).  The next activity though, here it is again... THREESOMES.  Why are so many musical artists pushing this?  Threesomes aren't a normal activity!  I think more people are having them (or pursuing them) because they think everyone else is.

"Trying to connect the dots
Don't know what to tell my boss
Think the city towed my car
Chandelier is on the floor
Ripped my favorite party dress
Warrants out for my arrest
Think I need a ginger ale
That was such an epic fail"

Normal people can't celebrate stupid behavior with such reckless abandon.  If your car is towed, you can call a limo.  Your fans just can't get to work.  Normal people may not know what to tell their boss either, but I'm sure he would just say "YOU'RE FIRED!" because you got picked up by the cops and missed work.  Those maxed out credit cards don't help, either, not in this recession.
I don't think you should be so quick to write off ripped clothes.  If you're blackout drunk, you may have been assaulted.  This song marks the death of the phrase "epic fail." The songwriters slipped in ginger ale so they could rhyme in a phrase the kids think is hip.

This song sounds cutesy, but is insidious.  Break it down, and it's really a nasty song that celebrates destructive behavior.  Getting blackout drunk is just a phase for some kids, but for others, that drinking can lead to death or a lifetime struggle with alcoholism.  Where's the verse about your problems with drinking leading to a divorce and spending 90 days in a rehab facility following the intervention thrown by your few remaining friends?